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Dec 8th, 2001, 12:16 PM

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Originally posted by Negative0
I have GeForce 3 with a Dual PIII 1 ghz and I only get 75 fps.

HEre is he proves of the 120 fps minimum I have.
http://www.vbforums.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=689581
Dec 8th, 2001, 12:16 PM
Evan

OK.

Im going to just upload it. I dont mind if everyone is looking
at it.

WaterMapper.Zip
Dec 8th, 2001, 12:17 PM

OK what I do not understand is than I open AGeofempire and the graphic are the same......
Dec 8th, 2001, 12:20 PM
Motoxpro

when do you think it will the next beta
Dec 8th, 2001, 12:22 PM
Evan

Quote:

Originally posted by DaoK
OK what I do not understand is than I open AGeofempire and the graphic are the same......

I exploited the AoE engine to give me that map. I wanted to get started on the code. After I get through the fighting, im going to create my own engine to make the maps.
Dec 8th, 2001, 12:24 PM
Evan

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Originally posted by Motoxpro
when do you think it will the next beta

In 2 weeks I should have the fighting completely running. It will be like FF tactics.

When I get there, I will upload it again.
Dec 8th, 2001, 12:26 PM

With what do you made your characters ?
Dec 8th, 2001, 12:27 PM
Motoxpro

ya they look great
Dec 8th, 2001, 12:28 PM
Evan

Quote:

Originally posted by DaoK
With what do you made your characters ?

Poser 4, and my own software which compiles them.
Dec 8th, 2001, 12:29 PM
Motoxpro

cool do you animate them in poser also?
Dec 8th, 2001, 12:41 PM
Evan

Quote:

Originally posted by Motoxpro
cool do you animate them in poser also?

Yeah!

I do that, then I export the frames of the character to a folder and name them correctly. I do 6 to 8 frames per direction. And then my Character Compiler looks through the folder, looks for files by name, it they start like 'Walk_N" that is a image of the person walking north. Then it takes the images, clips dead area off of them (areas that the characters never touch) and then it blackens the resisted colors to pure black so DX will worth with them. And puts them in a CHR file.
Dec 8th, 2001, 12:45 PM
Motoxpro

wow souds complicated
Dec 8th, 2001, 01:05 PM
Evan

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Originally posted by Motoxpro
wow souds complicated

That was the easy part. Did you see the code to draw the map.
Its divided into tiles.
Dec 8th, 2001, 01:09 PM
Evan

The water mapper

I uploaded it, its on the first reply in this thread.

There is a map in the default folder that you can use
with it. Its call maps.bmp.

When you pick the map nothing will happen. Thats
normal, and then a minute or so later, when it gets
done. It will say so, and this you will see the frames
in the root folder.
Dec 8th, 2001, 01:26 PM
Cr3w

That is fantastic

Pld man cant wait for the next release
Dec 8th, 2001, 01:29 PM
Evan

Quote:

Originally posted by Cr3w
That is fantastic

Pld man cant wait for the next release

Thanks! next beta should be out in 2-3 weeks.
Dec 8th, 2001, 02:11 PM
Motoxpro

cool cant wait
Dec 8th, 2001, 02:24 PM

You will have xmas break so hurry up for the beta :D
Dec 8th, 2001, 02:30 PM
Motoxpro

LOL AHAHAA
Dec 8th, 2001, 02:51 PM
Evan

=p

I have my final exam in one of my classes to do tonight. Then Im free to work on this. I will try to get it done in 2 weeks =p

Deal?
Dec 8th, 2001, 02:56 PM
Motoxpro

LOL its your game..take your time noone wants a bugy game :)
Dec 8th, 2001, 02:57 PM
JungleMan

Quote:

Originally posted by Motoxpro
LOL its your game..take your time noone wants a bugy game :)

nobody wants a buggy anything :)
Dec 8th, 2001, 03:00 PM
Motoxpro

ya thats true
Dec 8th, 2001, 04:49 PM
Evan

When I give you guys the new beta it wont be buggy =)
Dec 8th, 2001, 04:52 PM
Evan

Oh, and about the FPS. Most new AGP cards have a max about which is 75. I just went and bought a TNT2 AGP 32mb card, maxes out at 75, my 16mb voodoo3 PCI did 125. But the TNT2 is twice as fast.

So im gonna put that cap on the game to make it max at somewhere between 40 and 75. I dont know where to put it though....
Dec 8th, 2001, 04:52 PM

well you should have a thread in the forum project.
Dec 8th, 2001, 05:49 PM
Motoxpro

Quote:

Originally posted by Evan
When I give you guys the new beta it wont be buggy =)

lol good
Dec 8th, 2001, 05:51 PM
Evan

heh. I think your right. Ill take my time, I would probably end up crashing your computer or something =p
Dec 8th, 2001, 06:48 PM
Motoxpro

lol i did that on aacident on some peeps comps with my prog
Dec 8th, 2001, 06:55 PM
Evan

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Originally posted by Motoxpro
lol i did that on aacident on some peeps comps with my prog

Hahaha... Im almost done with my Final. Hopefully be starting on the game tonight. I might call it Intertermoil.

What do you think I should call it?
Dec 8th, 2001, 07:37 PM
Motoxpro

:)

hmmm sounds ok.....are there going to be multiple levels?
Dec 8th, 2001, 07:49 PM
Evan

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Originally posted by Motoxpro
:)

hmmm sounds ok.....are there going to be multiple levels?

Nope. Its a world conquest game.

God.. the AI for the characters is HARD.
Dec 8th, 2001, 07:57 PM

We will be able to play it on the Net ?
Dec 8th, 2001, 09:05 PM
SomethinCool

hey evan..i have a question..
1) how did you learn to program DirectX in VB? I want to learn....

and

2) How did you make that water and that map and stuff?
Dec 8th, 2001, 10:28 PM
Motoxpro

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Originally posted by Evan

Nope. Its a world conquest game.

oooo ok
Dec 8th, 2001, 10:29 PM
Evan

Quote:

Originally posted by DaoK
We will be able to play it on the Net ?

Nope, this is a single player game (or multiplayer lan)
Dec 8th, 2001, 10:31 PM
Evan

Quote:

Originally posted by SomethinCool
hey evan..i have a question..
1) how did you learn to program DirectX in VB? I want to learn....

and

2) How did you make that water and that map and stuff?

I taught myself DX, Its not to bad. Goto planet source code and look for examples. Just try to build your code off one of those.

The water used a application I made. Its not really moving water its just a VB trick. I looked for the blue pixels and randomly offseted them, so it appeared to be fading in and out. I uploaded that code. Look to my first post, there is a link that says 'water mapper'
Dec 8th, 2001, 10:39 PM
Motoxpro

awww thats ok i dont like to play games like that on the net
Dec 8th, 2001, 10:39 PM

I have a question about DirectX, I already wanted to learn it but you need to many code just to do a little animation, Evan, do you understand all code or you are copy and pasting than modifiing the code ? Or you know all and you make your own code now ?
Dec 8th, 2001, 10:45 PM
Evan

Quote:

Originally posted by DaoK
I have a question about DirectX, I already wanted to learn it but you need to many code just to do a little animation, Evan, do you understand all code or you are copy and pasting than modifiing the code ? Or you know all and you make your own code now ?

Actually, a bit of both. Im not great with it yet. But I understand all of it. It just took me awhile to understand it.

Yeah it takes alot of time, and more code... but the results are 50 times better. Its well worth learning!
Dec 8th, 2001, 10:53 PM

Yes you are right because your game look very well :)
Dec 8th, 2001, 11:52 PM
SomethinCool

Do they make books on how to program DirectX in VB? I dont know C++ yet..i only know the very basics of c++. I dont know Win32 programming.
Dec 9th, 2001, 10:36 AM
Evan

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Originally posted by SomethinCool
Do they make books on how to program DirectX in VB? I dont know C++ yet..i only know the very basics of c++. I dont know Win32 programming.

I dont know.. I made my project off of this example.
Its the easiest one, because it uses subs to load DX.
So then you have to remember alot less code =)
Dec 9th, 2001, 12:19 PM
Dayo

Wow..impressive...

(I love you)

Danielle :)
Dec 9th, 2001, 12:22 PM

Great, I suppose than you have take the exact same code to know the FPS because I have still 120.5 fps :)
Dec 9th, 2001, 12:54 PM
Evan

Quote:

Originally posted by Dayo
Wow..impressive...

(I love you)

Danielle :)

hehe hi! How are you doing?
I love you to =)
Dec 9th, 2001, 12:55 PM
Evan

Quote:

Originally posted by DaoK
Great, I suppose than you have take the exact same code to know the FPS because I have still 120.5 fps :)

Yeah! Ive found the code and the Biting doesnt effect the speed at ALL. Its fantastic!
Dec 9th, 2001, 12:56 PM
Evan

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Me and Dayo

This and me and dayo...
Dec 9th, 2001, 02:44 PM
Motoxpro

Quote:

Originally posted by Evan

I dont know.. I made my project off of this example.
Its the easiest one, because it uses subs to load DX.
So then you have to remember alot less code =)

cool
Dec 9th, 2001, 07:46 PM
SomethinCool

evan how did you make that map though?
Dec 9th, 2001, 08:07 PM
Dayo

Hey babe!

Wow..I am VERY impressed. I just saw the screen shot. I REALLY love it....keep it up. I can wait to see the finished product..
I love you!

Dayo:D
Dec 9th, 2001, 08:09 PM

Quote:

evan how did you make that map though?

Yes he did it but he took graphic of age of empire.
Dec 9th, 2001, 08:13 PM
Evan

Note:

THe map is tiled, they are tiles of 256x256.
If you ever make a game you cannot use larger tiles, they
will have errors on some computers!
Dec 9th, 2001, 08:19 PM
Motoxpro

ya like he has a house tile a grass tile ect (i think)
Dec 9th, 2001, 09:46 PM
SomethinCool

ok um...i kinda asked..how you made that map...did you use a special program or something?
Dec 10th, 2001, 12:08 AM
Evan

Quote:

Originally posted by Motoxpro
ya like he has a house tile a grass tile ect (i think)

no no no. One big map, split into tiles. Then they are tiled over the screen
Dec 10th, 2001, 12:09 AM
Evan

Quote:

Originally posted by SomethinCool
ok um...i kinda asked..how you made that map...did you use a special program or something?

I made a program to take a backround, and then you can make objects, and paths. Then it cuts up the backround into the tiles, and places all of those and the Objects and Paths into one file.
Dec 10th, 2001, 01:01 AM
Motoxpro

Quote:

Originally posted by Evan

no no no. One big map, split into tiles. Then they are tiled over the screen

oooo ok im new in games...and i thought that is how most people did it
Dec 10th, 2001, 01:21 AM
Evan

Quote:

Originally posted by Motoxpro

oooo ok im new in games...and i thought that is how most people did it

Oh they do. I think the 'playstation' way is easier.
You get something to make your map, and then you put invisible object barriers like 'walls', and then you test to see if the sprite is in one or not.
Dec 10th, 2001, 01:45 AM
Motoxpro

ooo ok thats the first time ibve heard of that 1 :)

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